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ISBN13: 9798267348560
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 27 2025
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 27 2025
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Doubles: Ghosts of the Podium
A Literary Political Thriller About Power, Propaganda, and the Erasure of Identity Across the last century, dictators didn't just choreograph parades-they manufactured saints and monsters by manufacturing faces. The Doubles: Ghosts of the Podium rips the curtain off that machinery in a literary political thriller that spans continents and regimes. In a Hague courtroom, a surgeon of identities and a cold-blooded handler set the rules; in operating theaters from Baghdad to Buenos Aires, conscripts are rebuilt into vessels for Stalin, Perón, Ceaușescu, Kim, Chávez, and Assad. What begins as camouflage becomes replacement. When the copy outperforms the original, law, media, and memory collapse-and power is revealed as pure theater. Anchored by Dr. Yun-the world's calmest apostle of identity surgery-and Volkov, a bureaucrat of bodies, the novel follows those trapped in their wake: a Bolshoi dancer remade into Stalin, a slum girl who becomes Santa Evita, a factory worker sculpted into Brezhnev, and a son who learns his father was the face that signed the orders. In a clandestine summit, doubles of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin negotiate a peace their originals never could-proof that the system doesn't need the man, only the mask. This is not alternate history; it's antifascist indictment. The Doubles shows how autocracies turn bodies into propaganda, language into anesthesia, and truth into performance-and how resistance begins wherever someone refuses to be replaced. A psychological literary thriller for readers of Robert Harris, Don DeLillo, and Margaret Atwood, this novel is a meditation on identity, power, and the ghosts behind every podium. Keywords: political thriller, literary fiction, psychological suspense, antifascist fiction, identity crisis novel, historical political drama, propaganda and power.
A Literary Political Thriller About Power, Propaganda, and the Erasure of Identity Across the last century, dictators didn't just choreograph parades-they manufactured saints and monsters by manufacturing faces. The Doubles: Ghosts of the Podium rips the curtain off that machinery in a literary political thriller that spans continents and regimes. In a Hague courtroom, a surgeon of identities and a cold-blooded handler set the rules; in operating theaters from Baghdad to Buenos Aires, conscripts are rebuilt into vessels for Stalin, Perón, Ceaușescu, Kim, Chávez, and Assad. What begins as camouflage becomes replacement. When the copy outperforms the original, law, media, and memory collapse-and power is revealed as pure theater. Anchored by Dr. Yun-the world's calmest apostle of identity surgery-and Volkov, a bureaucrat of bodies, the novel follows those trapped in their wake: a Bolshoi dancer remade into Stalin, a slum girl who becomes Santa Evita, a factory worker sculpted into Brezhnev, and a son who learns his father was the face that signed the orders. In a clandestine summit, doubles of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin negotiate a peace their originals never could-proof that the system doesn't need the man, only the mask. This is not alternate history; it's antifascist indictment. The Doubles shows how autocracies turn bodies into propaganda, language into anesthesia, and truth into performance-and how resistance begins wherever someone refuses to be replaced. A psychological literary thriller for readers of Robert Harris, Don DeLillo, and Margaret Atwood, this novel is a meditation on identity, power, and the ghosts behind every podium. Keywords: political thriller, literary fiction, psychological suspense, antifascist fiction, identity crisis novel, historical political drama, propaganda and power.
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